Bible dictionaries
Extinct
What Bible dictionaries say about “Extinct”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Extinct - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
EXTINCT', a. [L. extinctus. See Extinguish.
1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, fire, light or a lamp is extinct.
2. Being at an end; having no survivor; as, a family or race is extinct.
3. Being at an end; having ceased. The enmity between the families is extinct.
My days are extinct. Job 17.
4. Being at an end, by abolition or disuse; having no force; as, the law is extinct.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
In Job 17:1, "My days are extinct" (za`akh (in Niphal)) and in Isa 43:17, "They are extinct" (da`akh), the word "extinct" should be recognized as a form of the participle, equivalent to "extinguished," so that in both passages an action, not merely a state, is indicated.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915